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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:47:07 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        "H. S." <security@revolutionsp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acer laptops - smart battery support
Message-ID:  <423A250B.3030208@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <54502.81.84.174.5.1111104772.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com>
References:  <54502.81.84.174.5.1111104772.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com>

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H. S. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/acpi/ , I understand the
> support for smart batteries isn't yet implemented on FreeBSD.. is there
> any plan to implement this? I can test patches etc, as I'm sure many other
> people can too, and this support would be a big plus for us who use our
> favourite OS on such a laptop.

Good news, it's already being worked on.  Hans Petter Selasky has kindly 
submitted some code that he developed and I'm in the process of 
integrating it.  It will be a little while though before it hits cvs as 
I'm extremely busy with work and it's not a small project.

-- 
Nate



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